Comment 2 for bug 106086

Let me clarify the comment about the hang. It seems to hang all the time,
but where it is in the boot process is occasionally unpredictable.

Sometimes I have also seen errors in that it doesn't seem to be able
to find the god-awful long UUID string for the root file system.

My guess is that all these symptoms come from SATA problems
earlier in the boot process as many others seem to have had them.

I just confirmed that looking through /var/log/messages
did not show any messages from the boots with the bad
kernel to help you. :(